Prepare for nature’s 2012 spectacular! NASA predicts this winter’s northern lights will be the brightest in 50 years. In the continental US, there’s no better place to view them than northern Minnesota and no better time than December or January, which offer our longest and most cloud-free nights. And there’s no certainly on better way to do that than on at Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge. Join us this winter and enjoy the show. But be sure to book now to take advantage of our summer sign-up discount rates.
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Polar Bears galore!
Posted by paulschurke on November 1st, 2010
“Is this for REAL?” my wife Sue & I kept asking each other last week while romping with polar bears on Hudson Bay. A dozen of us took part in Wintergreen’s pioneering venture with Churchill Wild at their lovely Seal River Heritage Lodge in northern Manitoba to hike the Arctic Ocean shore amongst polar bears waiting [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Arctic 
Tags: Adventure Travel, Arctic, dogsledding, polar bears 
1 Comment »Luck o’ the Irish finds the “Polar Time Capsule”
Posted by paulschurke on October 3rd, 2010
Luck o’ the Irish finds the “Polar Time Capsule”
The 1986 dogsled trek that Will Steger & I (Paul Schurke) led to the North Pole was oddly fraught with inexplicable curiosities and encounters. Perhaps the most unlikely upshot involved a humble piece of plumbing pipe. Enjoy this bonified ‘believe it or not’ tale at www.dogsledding.com/gnablog!
Posted in Featured Posts Tags: Adventure Travel, Arctic, dogsled, dogsledding, North Pole 4 Comments »Wintergreen’s Adventure Diplomacy Expedition Commemorated in Anchorage
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
When we dogsledded and skied from Siberia to Alaska 20 years ago in our effort to help re-open the U.S.-Soviet border in the Bering Strait, little did we know that the project would someday be memorialized in a very unusual way. But this week we got a call from Alaska Airlines to tell us that [...]
Adventure Story – Pyta Boy’s Long Walk Home
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
Can dogs really find their way home over long distances a la “The Incredible Journey” and “Old Yeller”? Migrating birds & butterflies certainly can — over thousands of miles. But according to the database in the book “Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals” (1999), most accounts [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Adventures, The Dogs, The Tales Tags: Eskimo Dog, Incredible Journey, Old Dogs No Comments »Wintergreen Guides Share Dogsled Wedding and Epic Adventure Honeymoon
Posted by brucegs13 on May 31st, 2010
We’re very proud of our 12-member guide team here at Wintergreen. They’ve not only been heralded as the ‘best in the business,’ but their adventure livelihood is also their lifestyle. Consider our senior guides Amy Voytilla & Dave Freeman. After a 4-year courtship that involved 5,000 miles of canoeing, kayaking, and dogsledding together, they celebrated [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Adventures, The Lodge Tags: Dogsled Wedding, dogsledding, Honeymoon, Wedding No Comments »A Tragic Arctic Love Story
Posted by brucegs13 on May 26th, 2010
An Arctic tale discovered, researched and told by Paul Schurke In 1897, three Swedish explorers led by Salomon Andree took off from the Arctic in a hydrogen-filled balloon named the Eagle in an attempt to fly over the North Pole. Sadly, they were never seen alive again. But the tragic story gained a romantic twist [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Arctic, The Tales Tags: Arctic, Explorer, Love Story, North Pole No Comments »Sir David Attenborough’s Visit to Wintergreen
Posted by brucegs13 on May 24th, 2010
Today’s headlines includes news that among the “Top Ten New Species” discovered last year is the world’s largest carnivorous plant, the “Attenborough Pitcher.” Hmmm…that rang a bell for us. When Sir David Attenborough filmed his “Life of Mammals” series for Planet Earth (2002), he came here to Ely to film timber wolves at Ely’s International [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Dogs, The Lodge Tags: Canadian Inuit Dogs, dogs, dogsledding, Eskimo Dog, pitcher plant, Planet Earth, Sir David Attenborough 1 Comment »
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